- Date
- August 16, 1992, 19:30 local (Aug 17, 1992, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Herriman, UT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N122RWR.P. Williams Acro Sport II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920816031319A
- Case key
- 42878
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Probable cause
Inadequate remedial action and poor inflight planning/decision. A factor to the accident was: an uncontrolled stall/spin.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
Witnesses reported that they observed the homebuilt airplane performing aerobatic maneuvers in the area for approximately 15 minutes before the accident. The airplane was at approximately 500 feet AGL when it entered a spin. The airplane did not recover before colliding with the terrain in a nose down attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N122RW
- Reported as
- R.P. Williams Acro Sport II (ACRO SPORT)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1074
- Airframe hours
- 19
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Williams, Robert & Rand
- Registered owner
- Williams, Robert & Rand
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · May 12, 1992 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- U42 · Salt Lake City, UT
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 68
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 13,875 total · 15 in this make and model · 11,574 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SLC, 6 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.